Speaking at Dog Food Conference 2014 24 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) If you don't have a chance to see me at TechEd Europe or St. Louis Days of .NET I will also be speaking at Dog Food Conference 2014. Cross-Platform Development with Team Foundation Server 2013 This session provides an overview of how cross-platform teams can utilize the power of Team Foundation Server (TFS). The power of TFS can be leveraged by developers of any language and platform. We will demonstrate how to use and access TFS from Eclipse and deploy to Linux with continuous Deployment.
Speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014 24 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Shortly after returning from speaking at TechEd Europe I will be speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014. A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 This session provides a detailed technical presentation of the functionality and architecture of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013. We start by presenting an overview of the key concepts, architecture, and configuration of the various components. We discuss the out-of-the box deployment actions available to compose automations for common deployment scenarios and how to use extensibility to cover the not-so-common scenarios. In more detail, we discuss the mechanism to manage variables across environments, how to include manual intervention, automated tests and rollbacks as part of a deployment, how to trigger release as part of a build, how to leverage logs to diagnose failed releases, and finally how to add custom actions to the inventory. These are presented through specific scenarios encountered in the field. Level: Intermediate Automating a Manual test using Microsoft Test Manager and Coded UI Test This session demonstrates taking a manual test from Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and automating it with Coded UI testing with Visual Studio. Level: Beginner Cross-Platform Development with Team Foundation Server 2013 This session provides an overview of how cross-platform teams can utilize the power of Team Foundation Server (TFS). The power of TFS can be leveraged by developers of any language and platform. We will demonstrate how to use and access TFS from Eclipse and deploy to Linux with continuous Deployment. Level: Intermediate
Speaking at TechEd Europe 2014! 19 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) I am so excited to be speaking at TechEd Europe 2014. Come check out the following sessions: DEV-B310 A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 BreakoutPrimary Speaker(s): Claude Remillard, Donovan BrownSpeaker Assistant(s): Proposed Speaker(s:) This session demos using Desired State Configuration (DSC) with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 to tackle real-world deployment challenges. We start by presenting an overview of the key concepts, architecture, and configuration of the various components. We discuss the out-of-the box deployment actions available to compose automations for common deployment scenarios and how to use extensibility to cover the not-so-common scenarios. In more detail, we discuss adding custom DSC resources, how to trigger release as part of a build and how to leverage logs to diagnose failed releases. These are presented through specific scenarios encountered in the field. DEV-B333 Cross-Platform Continuous Delivery with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 BreakoutPrimary Speaker(s): Donovan BrownSpeaker Assistant(s): Proposed Speaker(s:) With Release Management you can achieve true continuous delivery on any platform. This session demos how to use Release Management for continuous delivery in Cross-Platform environments including Windows and Linux. We will cover how to leverage Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Chef integration to create a release pipeline for both Windows and Linux.